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In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede their quest to acquire Indian land, and by 1929 Scandinavians owned more reservation acreage than their Dakota neighbors. Norwegian homesteader Helena Haugen Kanten put it plainly: "We stole the land from the Indians." With this largely unknown story at its center, Encounter on the Great Plains brings together two dominant processes in American history: the unceasing migration of newcomers to North America, and the protracted dispossession of indigenous peoples who inhabited the continent. Drawing on fifteen years of archival research and 130 oral histories, Karen V. Hansen explores the epic issues of co-existence between settlers and Indians and the effect of racial hierarchies, both legal and cultural, on marginalized peoples. Hansen offers a wealth of intimate detail about daily lives and community events, showing how both Dakotas and Scandinavians resisted assimilation and used their rights as new citizens to combat attacks on their cultures. In this flowing narrative, women emerge as resourceful agents of their own economic interests. Dakota women gained autonomy in the use of their allotments, while Scandinavian women staked and "proved up" their own claims. Hansen chronicles the intertwined stories of Dakotas and immigrants-women and men, farmers, domestic servants, and day laborers. Their shared struggles reveal efforts to maintain a language, sustain a culture, and navigate their complex ties to more than one nation. The history of the American West cannot be told without these voices: their long connections, intermittent conflicts, and profound influence over one another defy easy categorization and provide a new perspective on the processes of immigration and land taking.
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9780199746811 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 16, 2013, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation.
Paperback:
9780190624545 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 2016, cover price $27.95
Product Description: The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the form of O. E. Rølvaag's fictionalized heroine Beret Holm, who made the best of life on the frontier but whose gaze seemed ever fixed on her long-lost home...read more
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9780873518208 | Minnesota Historical Society Pr, May 1, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the form of O.
Product Description: In recent years U.S. public policy has focused on strengthening the nuclear family as a primary strategy for improving the lives of America's youth. It is often assumed that this normative type of family is an independent, self-sufficient unit adequate for raising children...read more
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9780813535005 | Rutgers Univ Pr, January 25, 2005, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: In recent years U.
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9780813535012 | Rutgers Univ Pr, January 25, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In recent years U.
Product Description: Explores the ways in which family life is gendered and reflect on the work of maintaining family and kin relationships, especially as social and family power structures change. This book includes guidance to topics from Adoption and African-American Families to Work-Family Tensions and Working-Class Families...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781566395892 | Temple Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $94.50 | About this edition: Explores the ways in which family life is gendered and reflect on the work of maintaining family and kin relationships, especially as social and family power structures change.
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9781566395908 | Temple Univ Pr, March 9, 1998, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Attempts to do justice to the complexity of contemporary families and to situate them in their economic, political, and cultural contexts.
Product Description: Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's working women and menâboth white and blackân the half century before the Civil War. Her use of diaries, letters, and autobiographies brings their voices to life, making this study an extraordinary combination of historical research and sociological interpretation...read more
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9780520084742 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's working women and menâboth white and blackân the half century before the Civil War.
Paperback:
9780520205611 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr on Demand, October 1, 1996), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's working women and menâboth white and blackân the half century before the Civil War.
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9780877226307 | Temple Univ Pr, January 1, 1990, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: A book on women, class and the feminist imagination.
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9780877226543, titled "Women, Class and the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Reader" | Temple Univ Pr, January 1, 1990, cover price $29.95
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